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In the span of just a few short years, Colombia--already a major oil and coal producer--has
developed an entirely different energy industry: biofuels. The industry’s pedal-to-the-metal
production surge has attracted no shortage of admirers, who hail the biofuel bonanza as a
model worth emulating. Others, however, question the social, economic, and even
environmental implications of harvesting fuel from the country’s fertile fields.